Fenbendazole For Dogs

sarah: what is your advice on worming yourhorse? i typically worm every six months with differentpastes. what do you suggest? dr lydia gray: how much time do we have? sarah: and i was going to say, i will settlein, because i know this is going to be a good one.

Fenbendazole For Dogs, dr lydia gray: this might be my favorite topic. if not, it's the second favorite. it's very close. we spend a lot of time talking about thisbecause the parasite control - the paradigm.

there's been a paradigm shift. sarah: oh. dr lydia gray: i know. i love when i can say that. sarah: that's pretty good. dr lydia gray: the advice we were given 50years ago, before i was born even-- i love when i can also say that-- was to rotate dewormersevery two months or so because the dewormers we had didn't get all of the species of wormsthe horses had. that doesn't exist-- that's not true anymore.

plus, we have the added problem of resistancein a parasite. so now, the thinking has turned around dramatically. and more and more people are getting on board,which is a good thing, that you need to do the fecal egg per gram counts. so you need to find out how many eggs-- parasite,worm eggs-- your horse is shedding. this doesn't tell you, contrary to what peoplethink, how many worms your horse has. sarah: ok. dr lydia gray: there's not a good correlation. what it tells you is if your horse is a highshedder or a low shedder, which means how

much is he putting out, is he contaminatingthe environment. sarah: oh, so it's more about looking forwardrather than a current check. dr lydia gray: yeah, then if you have a lowshedder, you might only need to deworm that horse once or twice a year. but a high shedder needs dewormed more frequentlyso that he's not pooping out worms, and making the environment full, and then reinfestingthemselves. sarah: ok, so-- dr lydia gray: people think it's hard, butit's not actually. it's do the fecal, and then figure out whatfrequency your horse needs.

and, of course, this all comes with your veterinarian's--because every location is a little bit different in the country. so it's pretty simple. sarah: when you talk about that people usedto rotate dewormers, what does that mean? they were just like switching brands? or when you talk about rotation? dr lydia gray: chemical classes. dr lydia gray: some people switch brands,but it was important as switching chemical classes.

dr lydia gray: so we'd would go from likea benzimidazole, like a fenbendazole, and then to a pyrantel pamoate, and then to aivermectin or moxidectin. and people would get into this rotation oflike every other month. you don't have to do that anymore. because of the resistance, some of the chemicalclasses don't work anymore. not that they don't work as well. they flat out don't work period. so it's like giving your horse a tube of water,or some sort of-- sarah: except he enjoys it much less.

dr lydia gray: oh, much less. yeah, so, a friend of mine said, you don'tget points for going through the motions. you have to use something that works. and the way you know it works is by doingfecals and working with your vet.